What errors are you getting? That could be helpful.

Personally, I think you went about things the wrong way. Normally, one doesn't specialize, then shoehorn them back into the general case. Remember - you can use more than one .cgi in your "application". CGI::Application is really misnamed. It should be called CGI::ApplicationComponent. My current CGI app is actually made up of

• main.cgi - login, logout, homepage, and the like
• help.cgi - all help functionality, including FAQ and the like
• search.cgi - all searching functionality (delegates to a generic searcher which everyone can use)
• reports.cgi - all reports (which other areas delegate to as well)
• messaging.cgi - one section of the application is about sending and receiving messages

That's all in one web application. Each of them has their own class that inherits (indirectly) from CGI::Application. One C::A developer told me that if any of his C::A classes has more than 8-12 runmodes, he has to find a reason not to refactor it into more than one C::A class, with its own .cgi wrapper.